Staff Frontend Engineer

Summary

Join Grafana Labs' DataViz squad as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to the development and enhancement of Grafana's visualization panels. This remote position, open to applicants in the Canadian Eastern and Central time zones, requires strong frontend engineering skills and experience with data visualization and transformation. You will play a leadership role, mentoring team members, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring the performance and reliability of Grafana's visualizations. The ideal candidate is passionate about data visualization, open source software, and possesses excellent communication skills. Grafana Labs offers a competitive compensation package and benefits.

Requirements

• Be comfortable working in a remote-first company and understand the importance of communication
• Clearly communicate in English (both written and verbal)
• Enjoy working as a team
• Be interested in data visualisation and transformation and have solid professional experience as a Frontend Engineer
• Take responsibility for operating the software you have built
• Be open to joining our on-call rotations and have experience supporting software in production, ensuring reliability and responding to incidents as needed
• Easily build an understanding of the user’s context and goals which will help you build the simplest solution that brings the biggest value to them
• Know how to transform ideas into working code – be able to design a solution, get feedback, and deliver large projects
• Be a self-driven individual who understands the power of feedback loops in making roadmap decisions and driving our product forward
• Enjoy working on complex solutions
• Have an active interest in observability (Metrics, Logs and Traces) and have experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, or other observability platforms
• Enjoy learning, growing, and supporting others to do the same
• Appreciate efficiency and strive to identify and utilize the most effective tools for the task at hand
• Care about our community of users and contributors and be keen to be an active Grafana Community Contributor

Responsibilities

• Take an active role in influencing our roadmap by engaging with internal stakeholders, customers and the OSS community
• Mentor and support other team members, participating in product and process discussions and collaborating with the team
• Take ownership of your career and growth and working with your manager to identify relevant opportunities
• Write clear design documents for upcoming solutions and reviewing those from others
• Participate in your team’s on-call rotations, supporting the operations and reliability of the solutions we build
• Provide technical support in customer escalations and helping us identify areas of high friction to address
• Work closely with the other squads in the Grafana Department

Preferred Qualifications

Naturally share your use of these tools with your team to maintain transparency and growth

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus (if applicable)
• Other benefits listed here